Author: Jamie Keech

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Jamie Keech

The Coming $10 Billion Discovery And The New Age Of Exploration

People always tend to think that an exploration company can only be sold for $1 billion dollars. One day we’ll have a discovery that will be sold for $10 billion or $15 billion… or even $20 billion. These are normal numbers in tech, but in our industry, people think it’s

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Jamie Keech

Mining Investing For The Risk Averse

Our risk profile is so different than a traditional mining company. And Why? Because we’ve taken so many of those risks out of the equation. Randy Smallwood is the President & CEO of Wheaton Precious Metals, a Vancouver based metal streaming company that was instrumental in pioneering the model. Randy

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Resource Insider Monthly: Jetlag & Mega-Mergers

Happy March RI members! It has been a busy and, at times, exhausting month. For me much of the last few weeks has been spent on an airplane. As I write this, I’m sitting on a flight heading to NYC from Sao Paulo, Brazil after spending the last week and

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Accessing The World’s Most Challenging Projects

The real risk to projects in the extractive industries are typically not below the ground… If we are going to be able to differentiate ourselves and produce a strategic competitive advantage the skill set is in operating in difficult environments. Tom Mills Works with Two Oceans Strategy Tom Mills is

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Jamie Keech

How To Get Shit Done In The Yukon

If you come in and you’re quite cavalier and you don’t respect mother nature, and the other contributing factors that can affect a project severely you’re going to end up in trouble. Brandon Duncan is the President and Founder of Backcountry Resources, a Yukon based construction, management and logistics company

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Jamie Keech

How To Disrupt Mining: A User’s Guide

I think the worst advice I’ve ever received is: that’s the way it’s done. It should never be like that, there is always a new way to approach something. Even if it’s been done the same way for years and years, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t approach whatever that task

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Resource Insider Monthly: Let The Games Begin

Hola, RI members, and happy (belated) January. I hope that everyone had a great holiday season and is ready to get back at it in 2019. January is a hectic month for the mining industry and heralds the beginning of “conference season”. This is the time of year where every

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Jamie Keech

How You Got Screwed In 2018

Resource Insider readers know that one of my favorite topics of discussion is rampant scum-baggery in the junior mining industry. Naturally, when Cambridge House International invited me to speak at this year’s Vancouver Resource Investment Conference, it was THE topic that needed addressing. In this presentation I discuss: The importance

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